The alternating block decomposition of iterated integrals and cyclic insertion on multiple zeta values

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAA056MaRDI QIDQ3382303zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Steven Charlton

Publication date 21 September 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03784

zbMATH Keywords

alternating block decompositionmultiple zeta values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Multiple Dirichlet series and zeta functions and multizeta values (11M32)

Abstract: The cyclic insertion conjecture of Borwein, Bradley, Broadhurst and Lisonv{e}k states that by inserting all cyclic permutations of some initial blocks of 2's into the multiple zeta value $zeta(1,3,ldots,1,3)$ and summing, one obtains an explicit rational multiple of a power of $pi$. Hoffman gives a conjectural identity of a similar flavour concerning $2zeta(3,3,2^m)-zeta(3,2^m,(1,2))$. In this paper we introduce the 'generalised cyclic insertion conjecture', which we describe using a new combinatorial structure on iterated integrals -- the so-called alternating block decomposition. We see that both the original BBBL cyclic insertion conjecture, and Hoffman's conjectural identity, are special cases of this 'generalised' cyclic insertion conjecture. By using Brown's motivic MZV framework, we establish that some symmetrised version of the generalised cyclic insertion conjecture always holds, up to a rational; this provides some evidence for the generalised conjecture.

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